Beach Blanket Babylon!

So today, Mom & I went up to San Francisco to celebrate her birthday some more...Dave & I bought her tickets for Beach Blanket Babylon. It's been playing for thirty years and I can see why! She's wanted to go for a loooong time and we finally did it! Even on a Sunday afternoon in the RAIN, people were lined up outside the theatre for hours before it began. But since we had lovely box seats, we took our time getting there.

We got to the city & parking karma was kind to us giving us a lovely street spot just off of Columbus. Since we had time before the show, we headed to O'Reilly's Pub. After all the St. Patrick's Day Parade had just finished so we had to go! Lovely place, though a bit full with the parade and all. I had a cosmo & we had a lovely chat before the show. With 10 minutes to show time, we headed to Club Fugazi.

The show was SO amazingly funny, creative, and entertaining! The band was rocking, the costumes were shocking, and the hair was...WOW! Wonderful show where so many celebrities appeared...Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's sofa, Whoopi Goldberg with dreadlocks four feet long, and Barbra Streisand with fingernails 12 inches long! They even had Dick Cheney with a hunting rifle fresh from shooting his friend! Our show was PG & they said the night time shows are R rated...can't wait to go back!

We left the theatre and decided to get dessert before dinner! We walked to Mara's and got some of their amazing cream horns to take home...was hard to wait to eat them! Then we walked to the Stinking Rose. I hadn't been there since Kel was a baby so it was great to be back....and I forgot just how GOOD their food is! On the table, they had this to die for spread of olive oil, chopped raw garlic, and parsley...OH and it was GOOOOD! Since that wasn't enough garlic, we ordered roasted garlic warm from the oven & chicken with 40 cloves of garlic! Lovely food, company, and a great waiter-Robert. We'll be going back up there SOON!

We decided to have a drink for the road--tea for me at O'Reilly's. Mom was chatting up a rugby player who recognized us from earlier in the day and accused us of drinking there all day long! She explained that we had left and come back...he just stayed the whole time...when asked about this, he said he went to church that morning, so it was ok. LOL

What a wonderful day and so much fun to spend quality time with Mom.